Marine Scientists Use Sonar to Tell NJ's Revolutionary War History
August 21, 2018
August 21, 2018
POMONA, New Jersey, Aug. 21 -- Richard Stockton College/Stockton University issued the following news:
Where the Garden State Parkway crosses over the Mullica River, lies an unseen story of the American Revolution concealed by murky water.
On Oct. 6, 1778, the British burned as many as ten merchant ships that had been captured by privateers operating out of Port Republic, N.J. in the Battle of Chestnut Neck, the first amphibious attack by the British in South Jersey.
Where the Garden State Parkway crosses over the Mullica River, lies an unseen story of the American Revolution concealed by murky water.
On Oct. 6, 1778, the British burned as many as ten merchant ships that had been captured by privateers operating out of Port Republic, N.J. in the Battle of Chestnut Neck, the first amphibious attack by the British in South Jersey.